Car-fender.



PATENTED OUT. 1'7, 1905. G. F. TAYLOR.

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APPLICATION FILED FEB.13,1905.

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GEORGE F. TAYLOR, OF RANDOLPH, l\ IASSAO1%IUSE.TS

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1'7, 1905.

Application filed February 13,1905. Serial No. 245,343.

To all, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Randolph, county of Norfolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Car-Fenders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to car-fenders, and has for its object to improve the fender illustrated in Patent No. 7 60,662, dated May 24:, 1904, granted to myself and Peter B. Sullivan. The car-fender illustrated in said patent is hinged to the car and is operatively connected with the brake mechanism of the car, so that when an obstacle strikes the nose of the fender and the latter is thrown downwardly the brakes are applied automatically. Said fender also has a suitable spring device for normally holding the fender-nose elevated. In my present improvement I have substituted for this spring device a friction device which operates to normally hold the nose of the fender elevated, but which friction device permits the fender to drop whenever it strikes an obstacle.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a car-fender having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section on the line at m, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail of the friction device hereinafter referred to.

3 designates a fender of any suitable or usual construction. Said fender is hinged to the car in any suitable or usual way, it being herein shown as being hinged to a suitable arm 4:, projecting forwardly from the car.

5 designates the usual motormans valve for controlling the air-brakes, 6 designates the exhaust-pipe leading from said valve, 7 designates the pipe leading from said valve to the reservoir, and 8 designates the pipe leading from said valve to the brake-cylinder. The pipes 7 and 8 are connected by a by-pass 9, which has therein a valve 10, which is controlled by the fender. For this purpose a valve-operating lever 11 is shown, which bears at one end against the stem of the valve 10 and at its other end is connected to the fender in any suitable way, as at 12. When the fen der is elevated, the valve is normally closed, thereby closing communication between the pipes 7 and 8, except as said communication is opened by means of the motormans valve 5. When the fender is thrown down, however, and the upper end swings forwardly, said valve is opened, thereby admitting air from the reservoir to the brake-cylinder and applying the brakes. At the same time a valve 14: is closed, thereby preventing the escape of air through the motormans valve and exhaust-pipe 6 in case the motormans valve should be set with the exhaust open.

The parts thus far described are or may be as illustrated in the aforesaid patent.

In order to hold the nose of the fenderelevated, I have provided a friction device which is so constructed that a slight blow against the nose of the fender-such, for instance, as would be occasioned by the fender striking an obstacle will release the friction device and allow the fender to drop, thereby applying the air-brakes and stopping the car. The friction device I have herein illustrated comprises a pair of spring-jaws 20, which are suitably secured to the bottom of the car, and a locking-lever 21, having at one end a head 22, adapted to be frictionally engaged by the jaws 20. The lever 21 is pivoted to the car in any suitable way, as at 23, and is pivotally connected to a thrust rod 2a, which in turn is connected to the fender below the point where it is hinged to the car.

When the fender is swung about its pivot point 26 the locking-lever 21 is swung into the full-line position, Fig. 1, thereby carrying the head 22 thereof between the frictionjaws. These spring-jaws hug the head with suficient friction to hold the nose of the fender elevated; but the friction between the jaws and head is such that a slight blow on the nose of the fender-such, for instance, as would be occasioned by the fender striking an obstacle-withdraws the head from the friction-jaws and allows the fender to drop into the dotted-line position. The movement of the fender into the dotted-line position operates to open communication between the pipes 8 and 7, whereby air is admitted from the reservoir to the brake-cylinder, and the brakes are applied.

Projecting from the head 22 are ears or lugs 28, which form stops to prevent the head 22 from being inserted too far between the jaws 20.

I prefer the form of friction device herein illustrated for holding the nose of the fender elevated; but this is not essential to the invention, as any suitable form of friction mechanism for this purpose may be employed.

Neither is the particular manner herein illustrated of controlling the brakes by the fender essential to the invention, as my improvement may be applied to any fender in which the car-brakes are controlled by the fender.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new. and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a car-fender, a fender hinged to a car, friction devices to hold the nose of the fender elevated, said friction devices permitting the fender to drop when it strikes an obstacle, and means operating in conjunction with the fender to stop the car when the fender is moved into its lowered position.

2. In a car-fender, afender, friction devices to hold the fender elevated from the track, 

